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About the sexual assault allegations made against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. kavanaugh is at the white house as allies try to bolster his character. >> i remind you murkowski and collins called for al franken to step down, and he didnt have due process. supporters of kavanaugh are calling into question professor christine blasey fords memory of the alleged assault, along with the 36 years that passed between then and now. these methods of discrediting a womans accusation against a ma...

Idea? do you think the public hearings are a good idea? anita hill wrote a piece saying hold on a second. >> they dont have any better systems than back then. >> if you think about what she went through personally, professionally, i mean, brutal. >> ive given that a lot of thought. im not sure monday is going to happen. a lot could happen between now and monday. >> what do you mean by that? >> other things could come out. maybe somebody who was at that party says hold on a second, judge kavanaug...

Pursuant to the constitution is to provide advice and consent. >> right. and not to determine guilt or innocence? >> exactly. if there is a -- i mean, ive seen people say even if its true he should be confirmed. i certainly dont agree with that thats for sure. >> this is where the rubber hits the road that i keep hearing things are so different. so much has changed since the 1 1990s, but sadly i dont see that. i see that the me, too, movement exists, but if this is a repeat of what happened to a...

Resum -- vacuum. that needs to be done by comparing what theyve said over time and what the other corroborating evidence is. if i can just explain what i think some of that corroborating evidence is already for dr dr. blasey, it is, first of all, she did tell her therapist back in 2012 about this, and for people to assume that shes lying now, that would mean that back in 2012, before judge kavanaugh was even nominated to the supreme court, she somehow planted the seeds of the story for some unkn...

Something that people who are critical of her use to attack her credibility? >> yeah, thats correct. it is not uncommon for somebody who has been sexually assaulted, first of all, not to come out immediately. we all know that. the me, too, movement has really shed some light on that. whats interesting, actually is senator hatch yesterday said in a conversation with judge kavanaugh that judge kavanaugh actually remembers that he wasnt at the party. >> right. >> i just had my 50th birthday over th...

Consumer sentiment is high because things are better than theyve been in the past in a macro sense for the economy, but there are a whole lot of voters in this economy. i was talking to a house republican pollster the other day. he said 51% of the electorate lives paycheck to paycheck, and theyre going to be judging how they feel on whats happening to their paycheck. theyre not seeing it all that much. >> john, always good to talk to you, the editor at large at cnbc. >> republicans who are not c...

Saying this woman is mixed up. >> how do you know? >> thats it. you dont have to say you believe her or you dont, but how could we possibly know. new developments in the bomb shell accusation of sexual assault against president trumps supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. the accuser professor christine blasey ford is now invited to testify in an extraordinary public hearing on capitol hill monday. were also going to hear from judge kavanaugh again in the public hearing about this specific acc...

Her in the last 36 hours three or four times by e-mail, and weve not heard from them, so it kind of raises the question do they want to -- do they want to come to the public hearing or not. >> if dr. ford agrees to come, chairman, grassley, will the fbi interview her first? >> the fbi, the fbi investigation of judge kavanaugh is closed. the fbi is not doing any further investigation. >> i may conclude afterwards that, you know, that he should go on and fill that seat. i may not. a lot will depen...